“We’re excited because we think it’sprobably the most near-term opportunity for a revenue contract for offshorewind in the US,” he says.  “We feelpretty good about our chances.” The submission deadline is 31 March.

Last year, Deepwater won the first US competitive offshorewind energy lease auction, paying $3.83m for the opportunity to develop twoparcels in federal waters facing Rhode Island and Massachusetts.